2019 Seville City Council election

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2019 Seville City Council election
Flag of Sevilla, Spain.svg
  2015 26 May 2019 2023  

All 31 seats in the City Council of Seville
16 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered540,851 Red Arrow Down.svg 0.8%
Turnout317,843 (58.8%)
Red Arrow Down.svg 0.7 pp
 First partySecond partyThird party
  Juan Espadas 2020 (cropped).jpg Portrait placeholder.svg Susana Serrano 2018 (cropped).jpg
Leader Juan Espadas Beltrán Pérez Susana Serrano
Party PSOE–A PP Adelante
Leader since24 May 201016 March 201814 April 2015
Last election11 seats, 32.2%12 seats, 33.1%5 seats, 16.0% [lower-alpha 1]
Seats won1384
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 2 Red Arrow Down.svg 4 Red Arrow Down.svg 1
Popular vote123,93373,10144,546
Percentage39.2%23.1%14.1%
Swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 7.0 pp Red Arrow Down.svg 10.0 pp Red Arrow Down.svg 1.9 pp

 Fourth partyFifth party
  Portrait placeholder.svg Cristina Pelaez 2023 (cropped).jpg
Leader Álvaro Pimentel Cristina Peláez
Party Cs Vox
Leader since27 March 20192015
Last election3 seats, 9.3%0 seats, 0.5%
Seats won42
Seat change Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 1 Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 2
Popular vote39,33125,122
Percentage12.5%8.0%
Swing Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 3.2 pp Green Arrow Up Darker.svg 7.5 pp

Mayor before election

Juan Espadas
PSOE

Elected Mayor

Juan Espadas
PSOE

The 2019 Seville City Council election, also the 2019 Seville municipal election, was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th City Council of the municipality of Seville. All 31 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in twelve autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.

Contents

Electoral system

The City Council of Seville (Spanish : Ayuntamiento de Sevilla) was the top-tier administrative and governing body of the municipality of Seville, composed of the mayor, the government council and the elected plenary assembly. [1] Elections to the local councils in Spain were fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years. [2] Voting for the local assembly was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over 18 years of age, registered and residing in the municipality of Seville and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of origin allowed Spanish nationals to vote in their own elections by virtue of a treaty.

Local councillors were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of five percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each local council. [1] [2] Councillors were allocated to municipal councils based on the following scale:

PopulationCouncillors
<1003
101–2505
251–1,0007
1,001–2,0009
2,001–5,00011
5,001–10,00013
10,001–20,00017
20,001–50,00021
50,001–100,00025
>100,001+1 per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction
+1 if total is an even number

The mayor was indirectly elected by the plenary assembly. A legal clause required that mayoral candidates earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors, or else the candidate of the most-voted party in the assembly was to be automatically appointed to the post. In the event of a tie, the appointee would be determined by lot. [1]

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of a determined amount of the electors registered in the municipality for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates. For the case of Seville, as its population was between 300,001 and 1,000,000, at least 5,000 signatures were required. [2]

Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:

CandidacyParties and
alliances
Leading candidateIdeologyPrevious resultGov.Ref.
Votes (%)Seats
PP
List
Portrait placeholder.svg Beltrán Pérez Conservatism
Christian democracy
33.05%12X mark.svg
PSOE–A Juan Espadas 2020 (cropped).jpg Juan Espadas Social democracy 32.16%11Yes check.svg
Adelante
List
Susana Serrano 2018 (cropped).jpg Susana Serrano Andalusian nationalism
Left-wing populism
Direct democracy
16.02% [lower-alpha 2] 5X mark.svg
Cs Portrait placeholder.svg Álvaro Pimentel Liberalism 9.29%3X mark.svg
Vox
List
Cristina Pelaez 2023 (cropped).jpg Cristina Peláez Right-wing populism
Ultranationalism
National conservatism
0.46%0X mark.svg

Opinion polls

The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 16 seats were required for an absolute majority in the City Council of Seville.

Results

Summary of the 26 May 2019 City Council of Seville election results
SevilleCouncilDiagram2019.svg
Parties and alliancesPopular voteSeats
Votes %±pp Total+/−
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (PSOE–A)123,93339.24+7.0813+2
People's Party (PP)73,10123.15–9.908–4
Forward Seville: We Can–United Left–Andalusian Spring (Adelante)144,54614.10–1.924–1
Citizens–Party of the Citizenry (Cs)39,33112.45+3.164+1
Vox (Vox)25,1227.95+7.492+2
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (PACMA)3,5211.11+0.090±0
Andalusia by Herself (AxSí)21,0830.34–1.070±0
More With You (CNTG+)8200.26New0±0
Act (PACT)7360.23New0±0
For a Fairer World (PUM+J)4860.15New0±0
Feminist Initiative (IFem)3920.12New0±0
Advancing For You (Avanzamos)2060.07New0±0
Spanish Phalanx of the CNSO (FE–JONS)1180.04–0.060±0
Party of the Immigrant in Spain (PADIE)1030.03–0.030±0
Renaissance and Union of Europe Party (PRUNE)470.01New0±0
Blank ballots2,2810.72–0.41
Total315,82631±0
Valid votes315,82699.37+0.15
Invalid votes2,0170.63–0.15
Votes cast / turnout317,84358.77–0.69
Abstentions223,00841.23+0.69
Registered voters540,851
Sources [7] [8]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
PSOE–A
39.24%
PP
23.15%
Adelante
14.10%
Cs
12.45%
Vox
7.95%
PACMA
1.11%
Others
1.26%
Blank ballots
0.72%
Seats
PSOE–A
41.94%
PP
25.81%
Adelante
12.90%
Cs
12.90%
Vox
6.45%

Notes

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